While Sudan Archives hasn’t released an original solo track in a few years, she did just come off of a slew of tour dates opening for Tame Impala in arenas across the country. She also took her violin-meets-ethereal vocals signature to a cover of Yoko Ono’s “Dogtown” for the excellent Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono album earlier this year. Now she has released “HomeMaker,” her first new track in three years.
“Home Maker” is an R&B pop song at its core, with a disco diva aesthetic. She’s a ruthless siren in the video, drawing men towards her irresistible ways. But now as a longtime LA resident, the Cincinnati native says the song is about becoming both independent and building a home with her partner.
“It took nesting — building a home, investing in partners that were worth my investment — to shake my anxiety and depression,” the Stone Throw records stalwart said in a statement. “For me, homemaking is a service to mental health and coping with fear and isolation. This song is about the effort put into making a relationship work and giving love a place to live.”
She’s heading out for a slew of festival performances in the US, Europe, and Canada. Check out her full list of 2022 summer festival stops below.
03/17 TX Austin Empire Garage (Stones Throw SXSW Showcase – headline)
03/27 TN Knoxville Big Ears Festival
03/28 MA Boston Boston Calling
06/04 OR Portland Beloved Festival
06/25 CA Alberta Sled Island
07/08 CA Montreal Le Festival International De Jazz De Montreal
07/09 CA Winnipeg Winnipeg Folk Festival
07/10 CA Winnipeg Winnipeg Folk Festival
07/24 WA Seattle Capitol Hill Block Party
07/29 NE Omaha Maha Festival
07/30 NE Omaha Maha Festival
08/25 UK London All Points East
08/27 SE Stockholm Popaganda Festival
08/28 UK Edinburgh Connect Festival
09/01 UK Salisbury End of the Road Festival
09/03 UK Bristol FORWARDS Festival
Anyone who has had cats knows they can do a number on your furniture. Even if you get a scratching post for them, they may prefer to claw your chair backs or sofa arms. Even if you make liberal use of a spray bottle to shoo them away from things you don’t want them to scratch, they may throw a huge claw-sharpening party in your living room while you’re asleep.
They are soft and gorgeous, but they have razors on their feet. That’s just how cats are.
Some people try to circumvent this reality by having their pet cats declawed. By surgically removing a cat’s claws, pet owners remove the problem of furniture clawing. But they also remove a major part of a cat’s anatomy, which can cause lifelong problems for our feline friends.
In fact, the practice is so potentially detrimental that states are beginning to make laws banning it.
In 2019, New York became the first state to ban onychectomy—the technical term for cat declawing—in most instances. The only exceptions are if the amputation procedure is being done to treat a cat’s medical condition, such as infection or injury. Veterinarians who declaw a cat for any other reason face a $1,000 fine.
Now Maryland has joined New York, with its own legislation prohibiting the practice passing in both the state house and senate. According to the Associated Press, the bill stipulates that vets who declaw cats for any reason other than “therapeutic purposes” would face a fine of up to $5,000 for a first offense and up to $10,000 for a second offense, as well as possibly having their license suspended or revoked.
“Declawing is a horrendously painful and disfiguring surgery,” Senator Mary Washington (D-Baltimore City) said, according to WUSA 9 News. “It is positively inhuman and conducted solely for the benefit of the owner. It has no benefit for the cat, in fact, quite the opposite.”
As the Humane Society of the United States points out, declawing a cat isn’t the cat equivalent of a human manicure, like many people believe it is. It’s the equivalent of cutting off our fingers at our last knuckle, removing our fingernails entirely. Imagine how much more uncomfortable and limiting our lives would be without our fingertips, not to mention the painful recovery from such a surgery. That’s similar to how declawing impacts cats.
“Medical drawbacks to declawing include pain in the paw, infection, tissue necrosis (tissue death), lameness, and back pain,” writes the Humane Society. “Removing claws changes the way a cat’s foot meets the ground and can cause pain similar to wearing an uncomfortable pair of shoes. There can also be a regrowth of improperly removed claws, nerve damage, and bone spurs.”
Declawing cats may also create challenges for them while using the litter box and may lead a cat to bite more than they normally would as well.
A big round of applause for the state of Maryland for being the 2nd state behind New York to recognize that cats have the right not to undergo forcible amputation – in other words theyu2019ve outlawed declawing!https://people.com/pets/maryland-will-become-second-state-to-prohibit-pet-owners-from-declawing-cats/?amp=trueu00a0u2026
While the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) discourages the practice of cat declawing and animal rights activists have pushed for it to be banned, the New York State Veterinary Medical Society was a vocal critic of New York’s ban. The organization, which is the largest veterinarian organization in New York, said that declawing should be allowed if an owner finds themselves with no alternative other than abandonment or euthanasia.
Animal rights activists, however, have celebrated the legislation as a victory for cats, who rely on their claws as essential body parts. When we know better, we do better, and knowing how declawing cats negatively impacts their quality of life makes it a practice that should only be done if it’s medically necessary for the cat not for the convenience of the human charged with their care.
Finding a great bottle of Scotch whisky between $100 and $125 is no great task. There’s a lot of it out there. And, in reality, scotch at this price point isn’t all that rare. Yet even in the comparatively high-priced Scotch market, paying up to $125 feels like a lot for any bottle.
Certainly, it’s still a far cry from the prime 20-year-old single malts, rare releases, and unicorns, when we’re looking at scotch by price. Scotch is simply more expensive than, say, bourbon, for a long list of reasons, but mostly because it has to come from further away, costs more to make, and only a (relatively) small portion of it actually makes it to the U.S.
For this list of 10 Scotch whiskies, I pulled from my own tasting notes, then ranked these bottles according to which ones I think you should buy or try. We’re talking about some pretty stellar bottles all the way through here, so that ranking is very close, especially in the top five. I also tried to include a good mix of peated and unpeated malts to give you a chance to find something that speaks to your palate.
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Master blender Stephanie Macleod created another masterpiece through this “Double Double” four-step aging process. Step one: aging single malt and single grain whiskies for 27 long years. The malts are then blended, the grains are blended, and they both rest again. Next, all of that is blended together in a vat and rested. Finally, the juice is finished in ex-Palo Cortado sherry casks.
Tasting Notes:
You can really tell this has an Aberfeldy backbone with a floral honeyed nose that imbues summer breezes full of fragrant flowers. That floral honey leads to an almost lemon-honey vibe with hints of cinnamon and cedar next to light pear tobacco and dry grass. The end turns into pure silk as the florals, honey, pear, and spice slowly massage your tongue as it fades away.
Bottom Line:
This is a velvety sip of blended whisky. It feels like a world-class single malt that just so happens to be a blend, which is a pretty good magic trick. Still, this is a half-bottle, and that kind of sticks in my craw, hence it ranking last on this list.
Glenmorangie has a wide range of whiskies to choose from. The juice in this bottle is aged for 15 years in ex-bourbon casks. Then a portion of those casks is re-barreled into sherry casks for three years. That whisky is then batched back with the rest of the bourbon barrels to create this release.
Tasting Notes:
Honey dominates the nose with mixed nut and dried fruits, kind of like a homemade trail mix without the M&Ms. The taste holds onto those rich honey notes and adds in a late-fall sense of wet, falling leaves with a soft nuttiness and almost savory fruitiness (not quite a squash but not as sweet as a fig either). A very, very small whisper of cherry or applewood smoke arrives to usher in a slow finish of salted caramel, more of that bespoke trail mix, and a final note of sherried malt.
Bottom Line:
This is one of those sippers that’s almost too easy. My main gripe with this is that the ABVs are a little low for any “wow” factor. That said, this is an easy-sipper with real depth, especially if you’re looking for a great cocktail base or a fruity/sweet sipper on the rocks.
Auchentoshan is a great example of a Lowland malt that harkens back to the old days of varied oak aging. In this case, the triple-distilled whisky is aged in ex-bourbon oak for around 12 years and then is finished in Olorosso and Pedro Ximenez sherry casks.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a fruitiness on the nose that speaks to blue and blackberries with slight tartness next to orange oils and a hint of prune. The taste has a toffee-covered-in-almond vibe, next to more of that dark fruit with an almost maple syrup spiked with woody cinnamon sticks vibe (hello, bourbon barrel). The end is surprisingly light, a little woody, and full of plenty of those berries as it slowly fades out.
Bottom Line:
If you’re looking for something that’s sweet, fruity, and just a tad woody, this is the play. Again, this might feel a little thinner thanks to those low ABVs, but there is real depth at play that’s very accessible for the same reason.
Compass Box is one of the best blenderies operating today. The London-based shingle created their Hedonism expression as a bit of an outlier. The juice is 100 percent grain whisky from North British Distillery and Cameronbridge Distillery, with a focus on first-fill bourbon barrels and re-charred American oak. Those barrels are married into this masterful blend. It’s then proofed down to a very accessible 86 proof and bottled.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a clear sense of bourbon vanilla and caramel that draws you in (especially if you’re a bourbon drinker). The taste holds onto those notes while adding in soft orchard fruits and a buttery, rich toffee silkiness and sweetness. The end smooths out the vanilla into a pudding, with a mild spiciness next to a final note of salted caramels covered in toasted coconut surfacing on the slow finish.
Bottom Line:
This is very much the bourbon drinker’s scotch. Pour this over some rocks and you’ll be in good hands with this blend of grain whiskies.
Glenfiddich tends to wow, even in their entry point expressions. Their 18-year-old is aged in both ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks for 18 long years. The whisky is then married and brought all the way down to 80 proof with Speyside water before bottling.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a real journey just on the nose from the apple orchard to a stewing pot with tart apples and spices to a buttery-crusted apple pie with spices, nuts, and vanilla. That fruit holds on as cedar arrives with notes of salted caramel wax paper wrappers, mild malts, and sweet dates with a hint of nuttiness. In the end, it all combines towards a hybrid sticky toffee pudding/Christmas cake vibe of dried fruits, spices, malts, and cedar as it slowly fades away.
Bottom Line:
This does not feel like it’s only 80 proof. The whisky is well layered with real depth and that shines through in every sip. I dig this on the rocks (or in a cocktail) but it works perfectly well as a neat pour with a drop or two of water to let it bloom in the glass.
Aberfeldy is at the heart of Dewar’s blend. The juice here is a classic Highland whisky aged in American oak and finished in sherry casks. That whisky is then cut down to proof with water from Pitilie Burn, a bubbling stream with gold deposits next to the distillery.
Tasting Notes:
Aberfeldy is renowned for its honeyed nature and this shines through on the nose with hints of clove-studded oranges and a touch of that sherried wood. The palate holds onto the wet sherry wood while going full holiday cake with spices, nuts, dried and candied fruits, and a sweet maltiness. The end reveals a mild note of bitter dark chocolate next to the honey and spices as it fades fairly quickly.
Bottom Line:
This is one of those bottles that are just good. It’s fruity, spicy, nutty, and comforting. It’s also not overly challenging. You’ll let out a sigh when you take a sip and you’ll feel the relaxation spread throughout your body. Sometimes that’s enough.
This small Speyside distillery has been producing quality whisky for over 200 years. This expression is aged 16 years in both ex-bourbon and ex-Olorosso sherry casks. It’s then married and proofed with soft Speyside water from the Highlands and bottled.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a matrix of dried dark fruits next to powdery dark spices with hints of walnuts and dried florals that draw you in on the nose. The taste delivers on those notes while adding a deep plummy jam cut with clove and slightly sweet wood. The end really holds onto that jammy fruit and spice as it slowly fades across your senses, leaving a velvet texture in your mouth.
Bottom Line:
This is another bottle that has a shockingly low ABV for all the depth involved. That jammy, spiced fruit is so well layered into the malty whisky that it’s hard not to fall in love with, especially if you’re looking for a great sweet Scotch whisky. This also works as an amazing Manhattan or old fashioned base.
Loch Lomond is renowned for making both malt and grain whiskies, both peated and unpeated, and winning tons of awards for it. This expression was the creation of Loch Lomond’s Master Cooper, Tommy Wallace, who hand selected the barrels to be vatted and proofed with Highland water.
Tasting Notes:
The oak comes through on the nose but is tied to applewood that’s been dipped in fresh and floral honey to the point that it feels like a honeycomb rolled in heather petals. The palate delivers on that while adding in an almost savory gooseberry next to grapefruit oils and an old cedar box full of berry-laced tobacco. That berry tobacco note leads to a nutty flourish near the end that then gives way to a hint of Band-Aid and clove as the peat just sneaks in on the finish.
The Bottom Line:
This is a lovely whisky with wonderful nuance. It also feels like a great bridge between the sweeter and fruitier unpeated whiskies and the lightly-peated ones. Nothing overpowers here, it’s all in balance. Just make sure to add a little water to open this one up on the nose and palate.
Highland Park’s Master Whisky Maker Gordon Motion hand picked sherry seasoned American oak barrels of single malt to create this new expression. The whisky is then decanted/bottled in a throwback ceramic bottle from Wade Ceramics, which has been making bottles like this since the early 1800s.
Tasting Notes:
Even though this is a peated whisky, the nose is all about bright notes of orange and lemon oils with a deep vanilla sauce vibe, a touch of dried heather, and old sticks of cider-soaked cinnamon. The palate lets the smoke sneak in via grilled pineapple that turns towards smoked plums, soft and moist Christmas cake with plenty of dried fruits, and a sense of cinnamon-flecked tobacco leaves that have just been singed around the edges. The peat sneaks in late via an almost sea salt element that lets the orange oils, vanilla, and cinnamon tobacco all mellow towards a silky finish.
The Bottom Line:
This is a pretty flawless whisky from the Orkney Islands. Pour it over a rock or with a drop of water and really dig into the nose and flavor profile. It runs deep and delicious.
Laphroaig is always innovating its line. This year’s Càirdeas is a triple-matured, cask-strength whisky. The whisky first mellowed in ex-bourbon casks before being moved to quarter casks and, finally, finished in Pedro Ximénez sherry casks. That whisky was then bottled as is.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a lot going on with this nose from a starting point of fresh Band-Aids to rich marzipan with plenty of rose water to apples stewed in holiday spices with hazelnut and caramel to a light touch of bourbon vanilla and maybe a hint of cherry tobacco. The palate takes that Band-Aid and turns it toward a sharp but very fatty smoked bacon vibe while a medley of smoked apples, salted licorice, and eggnog spices mingle beneath that bacon. The mid palate leans into a very dry cedar as notes of nori, fennel, and sharper brown spices, almost Red Hots, warm the back end of the finish.
Bottom Line:
Sherry and peat go hand-in-hand to make great whisky. This special release from last year is a stellar whisky with bold peat tempered by stewed fruits and spices. This whisky is bold, sure, but it’s so inviting and subtle that it’s hard not to love, even if for the merely peat curious. Find this one and give it a shot. It just might convert you to peated whiskies for the rest of your life.
It’s pretty common for fans to speculate about a character’s sexuality. It’s also common that the actual show writers advocate for a certain character to be a part of the LGBTQ community, in order to bring in some much-needed representation. In the case of the hit HBO show Succession, there was one character, in particular, that was almost written as gay: the much-loved Cousin Greg.
On a recent episode of the podcast Homo Sapiens, Succession writer Georgia Pritchett said she had originally wanted Nicholas Braun’s character to be gay, mostly because they didn’t explore his backstory until season three. “I had sort of advocated for Greg to be gay – until last season he hadn’t really done anything with anyone.” Before season three, Greg didn’t have much luck in terms of romance, though that changed last season when he was suddenly juggling two women. In the blink of an eye, Greg the Egg was the most sought-after companion on the show and even inspired a real-life sex toy to be named after him.
While Greg’s intended story arch never panned out, Pritchett did admit that the believed Roman “feels a bit fluid and pan.” Roman is played by the lovably weird Kiernan Culkin. “I don’t think he’d hold back if he fancied doing something,” she added. “He wouldn’t hold back.”
After all, the character hasn’t had a lot of luck with love in the past. Who knows what the future will hold when the series inevitably comes back for its fourth season.
With Tucker Carlson grabbing regular headlines, it’s sometimes easy to forget that ol’ Fish Sticks is not the only so-called “journalist” on Fox News who is regularly assaulting their viewers’ ears and eyes with bad takes, random conjecture, and straight-up bullsh*t, and presenting it all as “the news.” Case in point: Jesse Watters, yet another of Fox News’ many resident stooges, who—when he’s not being kind of racist, sexist, or encouraging his viewers to “ambush” Dr. Fauci—is generally just making an ass out of himself. For Watters’ latest act of buffoonery, he’s claiming that it is Joe Biden—not Vladimir Putin, the man who actually attacked Ukraine—who is responsible for Putin’s attack on Ukraine, and it’s all because of Hunter Biden’s laptop! Yep, we’re going all the way back to that.
Just when you thought Hunter’s laptop was finally a thing of the past, Watters had to go and not just boot it up again, but put it at the very center of the Russia Ukraine War. As Raw Story reports, Watters chatted up John Paul Mac Isaac, a.k.a. “Hunter’s Laptop Repairman,” and his jaunty hat on Tuesday, where his questions were more like attempts to push through some wild conspiracy theories that Isaac (nor his hat) seemed 100 percent comfortable agreeing with.
After asking for Isaac’s thoughts on the situation happening right now in Ukraine—because presumably a computer repairman would also be an expert on geopolitics—he responded that: “It’s hard to tell. I mean, last time Ukraine was in this, or close to this situation, Joe Biden was in charge [as vice president]. And last time, Hunter Biden profited greatly off of his dad’s involvement in Ukraine. I think this time Joe needs a distraction more than he needs money.”
This was a golden opportunity for Watters, and he seized the moment by making a huge leap by asking: “Do you think this was engineered as a distraction, or do you think this just kind of happened because of Vlad and this rush to war?” (Vlad!)
Isaac seemed uncomfortable with the whole question, and replied that ” I would hate to think that the Ukrainian people would have to suffer the way they’re suffering now because Joe needed a distraction.”
Jesse Watters asks the man who turned Hunter Biden’s laptop to the FBI if he thinks the war in Ukraine was “engineered” by Biden as “a distraction” pic.twitter.com/qmmL9sCO1z
At this point, if you are an actor and you haven’t been asked to join a Marvel film, it’s probably a little embarrassing. The superhero franchise has been churning out content faster than humanely possible lately, and they just announced their newest Marvel addition: Euphoria’s breakout star Sydney Sweeney.
Sweeney will join Dakota Johnson in Madame Web, the upcoming Sony/Marvel superhero film directed by S.J. Clarkson. For those of you who are having a hard time following, Sony Pictures’ Marvel installments include Spider-Man and Venom, and it’s slightly different than the MCU, which includes The Avengers, etc., though Spider-man is technically both MCU and Sony. Also, The X-Men fit in there somewhere, though they are owned by Fox. It’s a little hard to keep track.
Madame Web is depicted as an older woman with telekinetic powers who is hooked up to a machine that looks a lot like a web, hence the name. She uses her mind to fight the bad guys and help others, similar to Doctor Strange. Since Johnson, who is definitely not an elderly woman, was cast as the lead, it is looking like Madame Web might be some sort of origin story. As per the original description: “Traditionally depicted as a blind, paralyzed old woman, she is surrounded by a web-like machine necessary to keep her alive, meaning that she stays away from direct conflict, favoring the option to send others to do the physical stuff on her behalf.”
Trevor Noah devoted a substantial chunk of time (on Tuesday night’s The Daily Show episode) to discussing the ongoing trainwreck of the Kanye West/Kim Kardashian/Pete Davidson situation. By now, you’ve surely noticed the back and forth, including how Kayne has thrown obstacles into Kim’s divorce filing (which was granted by a judge) and depicted an act of physical violence against Pete in a music video, and Noah has warned this very publicly rendered obsession could take a terrible turn.
Noah, who had discussed how his own mother endured an abusive relationship before being shot in the head (Patricia Noah did, miraculously, survive), did carefully make sure that he wasn’t accusing Kanye of physical violence. Still, Noah expressed worry and wondered, “Do we wish to stand by and watch a car crash when we thought we saw it coming? Or do we at least want to say, ‘Slow down, let’s all put our hazards on, because there’s a storm coming and sh*t might go down.’”
Before long, Kanye posted (as noted by both TMZ and Us Weekly) a response on his Instagram page. He’s since deleted the racial slur-filled post, but here’s a screenshot:
— Man’s NOT Barry Roux (@AdvoBarryRoux) March 16, 2022
Noah stepped up and responded in the comments to that post. Of course, the post and the comment are now deleted, but Noah (via The Wrap) declared (of the racial slur), “Clearly some people graduate but we still stupid.” He added, “Don’t ever forget, the biggest trick racists ever played on black people was teaching us to strip each other of our blackness whenever we disagree. Tricking us into dividing ourselves up into splinters so that we would never unite into a powerful rod.”
Earlier on in the comment, Noah expressed concern for Kanye’s well-being, too:
“There are few artists who have had more of an impact on me than you Ye. You took samples and turned them into symphonies. You took your pain and through the wire turned it into performance perfection. I thought differently about how I spend my money because of you, I learned to protect my child-like creativity from grown thoughts because of you, shit I still smile every time I put on my seatbelt because of you.
“You’re an indelible part of my life Ye. Which is why it breaks my heart to see you like this. I don’t care if you support Trump and I don’t care if you roast Pete. I do however care when I see you on a path that’s dangerously close to peril and pain.”
As of now, there’s been no additional response from Kanye.
Prince’s 1986 album Camille was so rare that Jack White once bid close to $49,375 for one of the 25 known copies. White apparently tried to purchase another one at a 2017 auction but was outbid by Questlove. Now, Jack White and his label Third Man Records have gotten the rights to the mythical album that Prince recorded as his feminine alter ego, and will be releasing Camille out into the world.
“We’re finally going to put it out,” Third Man Records co-founder Ben Blackwell was quoted as saying in a Mojo print profile of White. “Prince’s people agreed – almost too easy.” In recording the album, Prince had pitch-shifted his vocals to sound like the album’s titular alter ego, but decided to scrap it shortly before its release. The album’s eight tracks have all been released in some way shape or form in the past, and you can hear the pitch-shifting effect by punching in the album titles into a streaming service. “Rebirth of the Flesh,” which appears on the Sign O’ The Times deluxe edition, is a good place to start.
The exact release date for the album has yet to be set, but Camille is due out via Third Man Records. Check out the complete tracklist below.
1. “Rebirth of the Flesh”
2. “Housequake”
3. “Strange Relationship”
4. “Feel U Up”
5. “Shockadelica”
6. “Good Love”
7. “If I Was Your Girlfriend”
8. “Rockhard in a Funky Place”
Do you support making Daylight Savings Time permanent? Then good news! You agree with Republicans Marco Rubio and Rick Scott. You also agree with Jonah Ryan, the monstrous yet easily mockable (and fictitious) liaison-turned-politician played by Timothy Simons over seven seasons of Veep. (A lot of other sensible people are for this, too, so don’t worry.) The day after the Senate unanimously passed the Sunshine Protection Act, Jonah emerged on Twitter, heaping praise upon a bill that’s so popular that it’s made strange bedfellows of many.
“Our long national nightmare and daymare is over,” declared Jonah in a statement attributed to him and shared by David Mandel, the show’s showrunner from Season 4 on. “No longer will innocent Americans show up hours late or hours early to their jobs, their J-dates or their court-ordered counseling appointments for weeks on end just because of the whims of ‘Big Clock.’”
In the statement, Jonah also made sure to air some of his less popular thoughts, such as supporting Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and, of course, outing himself as anti-vaxx.
“The recent COVID-19 pandemic has proven that my views about vaccines which were once dismissed as ‘fringe’ or ‘anti-scientific’ or ‘insane’ were, in fact, correct,” Jonah writes. “In case you’ve forgotten, my own father died of Chicken Pox that I gave him in order that decent Americans everywhere might be spared from vaccinations that are filled with chemicals.”
On top of that, Jonah also derided the U.S. metric system as well as the “lack of nudity” on the most recent season of Euphoria.
But many on both sides of the aisle can at least come together on this: that the nation shouldn’t move clocks back in the fall, thereby giving us another hour of light during the bleak midwinter. It’s cruel to those who like daylight and, besides that, it’s awkward — even more awkward than Jonah Ryan.
A clip from The Goldbergs went viral this week, and not in a good way, as people started realizing how the show has been handling Jeff Garlin’s absence after he left the show. Wendi McLendon-Covey, who plays Beverly Goldberg on the ABC sitcom, has responded with details about what the show has been dealing with behind the scenes.
In the now-viral tweet showing the extremely awkward methods being used to massage Garlin into scenes, journalist Noel Murray wrote, “They should either cancel The Goldbergs or kill off Jeff Garlin’s character because the workarounds they’ve been using this season ain’t working.” Apparently, McLendon-Covey couldn’t agree more and proceeded to lay out the difficulties the production has been having with Garlin, complete with a dollop of sarcasm.
“Thanks for the great suggestion Noel!” McLendon-Covey replied. “This season threw us for a loop because a.) it’s hard to incorporate someone who doesn’t want to be there and wants to leave mid-scene, and b.) we werent about to re-write the 2nd half of the season. We’re doing our best.”
Thanks for the great suggestion Noel! This season threw us for a loop because a.) it’s hard to incorporate someone who doesn’t want to be there and wants to leave mid-scene, and b.) we werent about to re-write the 2nd half of the season. We’re doing our best.
— Wendi McLendon-Covey (@wendimclendonco) March 15, 2022
As you can see in the Garlin video, it’s jarringly obvious that he’s not filming with his co-stars. His character, Murray Goldberg, appears on the opposite side of the room or he’s only shown from the shoulders down to hide the use of a stand-in. When Garlin does appear with the other characters, the end result is basically horrifying.
Garlin exited the series in mid-December following the reporting of several allegations of on-set misconduct, which also revealed his lack of interest in filming The Goldbergs. Unfortunately, the other actors on the show like McLendon-Covey are forced to bear the brunt of Garlin being completely checked out of the show both mentally and now literally, and it seems like they’re done being quiet about it.
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